Pomegranate - Wikipedia
The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin pōmum "apple" and grānātum "seeded". Possibly stemming from the old French word for the fruit, pomme-grenade, the pomegranate was known in early English as "apple of Grenada"—a term which today survives only in heraldic blazons.This is a folk etymology, confusing the Latin granatus with the name of the Spanish …